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Excerpt from History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger, Who Emigrated From Europe to Lancaster County, Pa;, In 1727, and a Complete Genealogical Family Register: With Biographies of His Descendants From the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time, With a Few Illustrations Having no stoves, they built a fireplace in one end of the house, upon which an open fire was kept to protect them from the cold of the winter season. The cooking was done by means of kettles hung over the fire, and the baking was done in ovens that were built outside of the house, and which were simply places arched over with stone and clay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.